Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House spokesman contacted after the notification said Reagan had scheduling conflicts, but said, in the next sentence, that it was too early to tell what those conflicts might be. "It's just too far in advance to say what Reagan will be doing on those dates," said Jack Weber, deputy press secretary...
Police locked all but one gate leading into Harvard Yard at 2 a.m. today and closed off Tercentenary Theater and several buildings in the Yard to allow trained dogs to search the area for "devices and explosives," said Harvard Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse...
...French Tennis Star Rene Lacoste, known as "le Crocodile" for his snappy style of play, began producing a polo shirt with a crocodile logo on the breast. Lacoste's garment was first marketed in the U.S. in 1951 under the name of a famous English tailor, Jack Izod. The Izod Lacoste shirt quickly became an American standard. In 1972 Lauren introduced a version featuring his own polo-player motif. Polo/Ralph Lauren claims to sell about 4 million of the items annually. Izod Lacoste's U.S. manufacturer is not forthcoming with sales figures, but industry analysts say the older shirt...
...grandfather of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway. His publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, estimates that 1 million Hemingway books are sold each year in the U.S. alone. In the past year, a major new biography by Jeffrey Meyers has appeared, as well as a memoir by his son Jack Hemingway. Jack and some other relatives have lately formed Hemingway Ltd., which will market the family name for use on such items as fishing rods and safari clothes. Jack has also lent Papa's name, grotesquely, to a line of shotguns...
...while the process does work that way. Thus it was with tax reform, a political miracle that was brought to the verge of fruition by an amazingly varied group of conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. Some, like New Jersey Democratic Senator Bill Bradley and New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, were longtime crusaders. Others, like Ronald Reagan, who supported a 1981 tax bill that was laden with special breaks, were late converts. But eventually, though the public at times seemed skeptical, most politicians came either to favor the idea or to fear the consequences of opposing...